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Jobs
Kroger-Albertsons merger collapses
Kroger’s costly effort to buy Albertsons fell apart when not one but two judges blocked the grocery merger. Now Albertsons is suing Kroger.
Collective bargaining
UFCW 555 reaches agreement with Kroger
The Fred Meyer boycott is over. New contracts covering 11,000 workers will raise wages $4.50 over three years for the most senior workers.
Jobs
Kroger/Albertsons merger on trial
Kroger and Albertsons are the big fish that swallowed up almost all other grocery competitors. Now Kroger proposes to swallow Albertsons.
Jobs
Stores Kroger and Albertsons plan to unload
Is your local grocery store one of the ones Kroger wants to sell to wholesaler C&S if the merger goes through? Check out the complete list.
Jobs
Kroger-Albertsons merger about to hit headwinds
The merger will have to get past four separate judges in the next two months. There are signs that investors don't think it will happen.
Jobs
FTC sues to stop Kroger-Albertsons merger
In court filings the antitrust agency says letting the two giants join would harm union grocery workers in particular.
Jobs
Washington AG sues to block Kroger-Albertsons merger
More than half of Washington supermarkets are either Kroger or Albertsons owned. The merger would eliminate head-to-head competition.
Jobs
Decision nears on Kroger-Albertsons merger
If Biden’s FTC approves it, a combination of Kroger and Albertsons would create a near-monopoly. The two of them own 40 grocery chains in all.
Workers Rights
The software that ate my paycheck
What’s behind the incredible string of payroll ‘errors’ at Fred Meyer, Providence, and the State of Oregon?
Jobs
Albertsons’ $4 billion dividend moves forward
Attorneys general are concerned the dividend could cripple Albertsons at the same time regulators are evaluating the company's proposed merger with Kroger.
Jobs
Washington sues to stop Albertsons’ $4 billion dividend
Unions representing grocery workers say the outsized payout could destroy the nation’s number two grocery chain.
Collective bargaining
At the ‘Big 3’ grocers, bargaining begins with UFCW
Despite a new Oregon law, sick leave may still be an object of contention in the contract talks
Retirement
Unions ask Congress to let distressed pensions trim retiree benefits
10 million workers are covered by multiemployer pensions, but at least half are in serious trouble
Collective bargaining
UFCW grocery workers ratify more contracts
Some 14,000 workers in Oregon and Southwest Washington have wrapped up voting on new three-year contracts.
Collective bargaining
Grocery workers ratifying new contracts
The contracts covering 14,000 include a 25 cent raise and 15% health insurance increase.
Collective bargaining
Mayor-elect Hales to grocers: ‘No one wins in a race to the bottom’
Hales spoke to union grocery workers before a scheduled round of bargaining.
